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Martin Jude Farawell

Martin Jude Farawell is the author of a chapbook, Genesis: A Sequence of Poems, and his work has appeared in a wide range of journals and anthologies. His plays have been performed off-off-Broadway and by regional, college, community and international theaters. A graduate of New York University's Creative Writing Program, he directs the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival.

Offering

We want and want
until want
is a fibrous growth
we can finger,
we can
nudge along
beneath the skin,
that swells
into
a great
wandering weight,
constantly shifting
our center of gravity,
until
we tilt
into each other,
and offer,
not our heart,
but this
malignant lump,
saying, "Feel it.
Feel
how big it's grown.
I have named it
after you."